It was in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and in 2021, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the sitting U.S. House Representative for Georgia’s 11th Congressional District, Barry Loudermilk, who after serving in the Georgia state legislature for about eight years, defeated a clown car full of several Republicans in the primary for his seat in the 2014 elections to replace Congressman Phil Gingrey. Before Loudermilk was even sworn in to serve in the House, he was hanging out with the Family Research Council on their program as well, being interviewed by the running joke about hypocrisy that is Josh Duggar, where Loudermilk lamented the suffering he and his fellow Christians have had to endure as “the left in America have so badly damaged the holiday of Christmas”.
Loudermilk was quickly hot-shotted to be the GOP’s new head of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee after being sworn in. and became the latest in a list of Republicans who seemed like they were given the job ironically when at his first town hall, Rep. Loudermilk was asked by a constituent if vaccines are linked to autism and he began boasting that he hadn’t vaccinated his children. After this unprecedented gaffe, there were even Republican strategists calling for Loudermilk’s resignation. This was in his SECOND MONTH on the job.
The crazy part, though, is that isn’t even the weirdest exchange from the town hall. Oh, no. Because for whatever reason, Loudermilk started discussing immigration with another constituent, who suggested the United States should “learn something from Afghanistan and start putting IUDs in the ground”. Now, that’s a weird idea for two reasons… the first being that she probably didn’t mean IUDs, which are a form of birth control, but probably meant IEDs, or “improvised explosive devices”. That seemed to be how Loudermilk interpreted her suggestion, to which he only objected because AMERICANS might get hurt. Any Mexican children that might find one of these rigged charges? Serves ‘em right for sniffing a chunk of real estate in the land of the free, man! But in that disastrous town hall, Loudermilk clearly wasn’t misspeaking when he voiced his fears that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the American government enough that they have gained access to the White House. He went on to elaborate and say that the Republican caucus of the House looked at ways to arrest Attorney General Eric Holder, before insinuating that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot.
In March 2016, right on the heels of the terror attacks in Brussels, Loudermilk spoke before the House and explained what the real problem in winning the war on terror was… “political correctness”, which he felt was somehow the cause of the deaths of Americans, because we are too afraid to hurt the feelings of terrorists. At Loudermilk’s next town hall in July of 2015, he responded to the news of the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church, and how as a result, the South Carolina state legislature had voted to take down the Confederate flag in their state capitol. Well, apparently David Barton’s tendency to re-write false histories is contagious, and Barry Loudermilk has also caught that disease. You see, as Loudermilk explained, he thought the shooting was motivated by anti-Christian hate (and not racism, like Dylann Roof actually was). Instead, Loudermilk pivoted the talk to being about gay marriage, comparing it to slavery by saying, “Hey, it was the Supreme Court’s opinion that Dred Scott and slavery was okay, did they get that right?”
Loudermilk has already voted to defund the Department of Homeland Security over President Obama’s delayed deportation orders on immigration, voted to try and defund Planned Parenthood based on the “sting” videos provided by the Center for Medical Progress, voted to try and block Syrian refugees from being resettled in the United States by supporting the SAFE Act and enjoys hanging out with anti-Islamic lunatic Frank Gaffney on his radio show to fearmonger about Muslim refugees.
Only days before Christmas of 2019, Lourdermilk claimed that the treatment Democrats were giving Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial was worse than Pontius Pilate treated Jesus. Last time we checked, nobody sized up the dumbass-in-chief for any crowns of thorns or anything, so this would be not just inappropriate, but very ill-timed hyperbole.
But he was in the tank for Donald Trump enough that even as late in the administration as December of 2020, he was shouting it out to the mountains that he wanted Evangelical “historian” David Barton to chair Trump’s “1776 Commission” that was their white nationalist response to the 1619 Project. Because why not put a proven liar and fraud out there to whitewash history in the most racist sense of the term?
Georgia’s 11th Congressional District has had a +19 lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index for the past decade, meaning Loudermilk’s been almost guaranteed re-election so after the past several years, he could do things like this:
- January 27th, 2019: Barry Loudermilk refused to vote for HJR 30, which was meant to express disapproval of Donald Trump not acting against Russian Federation for attacking our democracy. You see, he’s fine with our nation being sublet to Vladimir Putin.
- December 18th, 2019: Rep. Loudermilk ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- May 15th, 2020: Loudermilk votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- January 6th, 2021: Barry Loudermilk votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Loudermilk votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Barry Loudermilk votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- February 25th, 2021: Loudermilk votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Loudermilk votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Barry Loudermilk votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Loudermilk votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Loudermilk is one of 172 Republicans who choose to vote against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 19th, 2021: Rep. Loudermilk votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- May 20th, 2021: Barry Loudermilk is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.
- November 5th, 2021: Barry Loudermilk votes against HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Barry Loudermilk was re-elected in 2020 with 60% of the vote, and has gone back to Washington to legislate based on lies that don’t track with any reality, including this moment on Twitter when he claimed illegal immigrants were getting Covid-19 stimulus checks (as they’re tied to people paying taxes via the treasury, it’s just not possible). We expect Loudermilk to continue to incoherently bleat out whatever current outrage is being promoted by Fox News for at least the next year and a half when he’s up for re-election again.
One Year Ago, March 31st, 2021: Barry Loudermilk (GA)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, March 31st, 2020: Barry Loudermilk (GA)… 2020 Update
Three Years Ago, March 31st, 2019: Barry Loudermilk (GA)… 2019 Update
Four Years Ago, March 31st, 2018: Barry Loudermilk (GA)… 2018 Update
Five Years Ago, March 31st, 2017: Barry Loudermilk (GA)… 2017 Update
Six Years Ago. March 31st, 2016: Barry Loudermilk (GA)… Original Profile
Seven Years Ago: March 31st, 2015: Randy Brogdon (OK)